Congatec Arm-based SMARC embedded computing modules achieve certification to Arm-driven Cassini project
SAN DIEGO – Congatec Inc. in San Diego is announcing that the company's Smart Mobility Architecture (SMARC) computers on module based on NXP i.MX8 M Plus processor have achieved SystemReady IR certification within the Arm driven Cassini project.
The embedded computing project aims to overcome the barriers of Arm deployments by providing a secure ecosystem of standards while delivering cloud-native software similar to an app store with easy download, install, and run routines.
Systems designers can benefit from reduced development effort and time to market by deploying their applications to the Cassini certified Arm ecosystem.
Hardware with Cassini SystemReady IR certified bootloader is validated to run unmodified ISO images of Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, and Debian operating systems to ease native software installation.
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The Congatec starter set suitable to implement the Cassini SystemReady IR certified bootloader targets artificial intelligence (AI) accelerated vision applications and contains the ecosystem developers need to start designing applications with the NXP i.MX 8M plus platform.
At the heart of the starter set is the new SMARC 2.1 computer-on-module conga-SMX8-Plus. It features 4 powerful Arm Cortex-A53 cores, 1x Arm Cortex-M7 controller and the NXP neural processing unit (NPU) to accelerate deep learning algorithms.
The 3.5-inch carrier board conga-SMC1/SMARC-ARM can connect to the 13 MP Basler dart daA4200-30mci BCON for MIPI camera via MIPI CSI-2.0 without any additional converter modules.
For more information contact Congatec online at www.congatec.com.
